Well my costs are going to consist of...the 3,000 mile road trip to Indiana...the I have a 4 wheelin trip there...30 minute drive to the Park and a whole day of wheelin, then back...the daily driving lol....Keeping in mind my Jeep is lifted, lol...gonna be fun.
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Gas Prices
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Um...where I live, there are NO buses.I understand how that is! I live between two very small towns, and the only buses that run are the school buses. I have to share a car with my mum, and that becomes a strain on my checkbook because my mum only gets paid once a month (she works at the school). I don't care what anyone says, but I'm going to bitch all I want about the gas prices because they're getting out of hand! When you live in a small area like I do and you have the tiny check I get at my job each week, you'd understand what it was like to go to the gas station and feel like crying because you're nearly on empty and you can't even afford to get a half a tank. Where 15 bucks only get you 2 gallons of gas, and it barely makes a dent in the tank, but it makes a big one in your wallet. Some people say "well you should quit buying things you don't need and you'll be fine"... hell, I can barely afford gas as it is, let alone any extra perks!
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Im so sick of hearing about gas prices. The way I see it.. *no offense to anyone* if you don't like it then walk!
You must live at home with mom and dad.
That is total BS. As I said before, My gas bill (as in the gas to heat my home...which is still cold inside) was over $400 in March. I pay rent, car payment, insurance payment, heat, electric etc. etc. etc. AND you are telling me to get over it and go walk. Walk my kids to school and the babysitter. Walk downtown to work. Walk to the grocery store. Give me a break. You have alot of growing up to do.
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hahahah this is so true....
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I hear ya Kristal. My friend is a second year med student. She lives in a crappy little place and has lost so much wieght. I don't know how she pays for everything. I don't know how any of you students get by. I feel so bad for her. I took her out to dinner and told her when she finally becomes a doctor she can pay for me. :grin:
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puts hand up to join the "no choice" clubMy sales territory is all of Ontario... that's a hell of a lot of walking!Not to mention that fuel costs send up the price of everything else... unless farmers can walk all their goods to the grocery store.
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I also have no choice. Its a long ass drive to a from work and my gas bill is around $1250.00 a month, none of which is even tax deductible. By the end of this month I am going to have to think seriously about quiting my job because the cost of getting to and from work are no longer going to be justified by what I make. What sucks is back home there are no jobs.However, what chaps my ass about people who are bitching about gas prices now is in the late 90's when all the independent producers were going bankrupt and an average of 1000 marginal wells a day, for more than a year, that were in this country, were being plugged. No one gave a shit. Despite industry warnings that what was happening would have grave consequences, no policy maker, no politician, no consumer gave a shit. Just as long as the price of gas was 0.79 cents who cared if American oil fields were shut down.When prices were at $8.00 a barrel all the government had to do to save many of these wells and many of these companies was suspend production taxes until prices rose back to the $18.00 to $20.00 level. Instead, the governments response was to create tax incentives for off-shore exploration. That did nothing to save the wells that were already here and producing. All it was, was a big tax break for the corporate oil companies, who had the hundreds of millions of dollars to explore for off-shore fields and the elimination of their "small time operator" competition. I wish my business could get a gift like that from the government.In case I have lost you. What this has to do with what you are paying today is quit simple. Excluding wells plugged outside the peak of closures in '97 & '98 there were 1000 marginal wells a day(marginal meaning producing an average of 10 barrels a day) being plugged for not less than 425 days, that translates into a reduction in supply of 4.25 million barrels a day. That is more than 1/4 of what the U.S. requires each day. If that oil were still on the market today, your gas prices would, most likely, be less than half what you are paying now. Incidentally once a marginal well is plugged it's never economically feasible to reopen it.I fully admit to being bias and bitter. Mom owned part of an independent production operation, that had been around since 1918, that went belly up in '97 when the pipe used to pump the oil out of the ground was, literally, worth more than the product it delivered.Like I said, nobody gave a shit then, least of all the policy makers who should have known better. I wonder if the U.S. will ever pull its head out and learn to look farther down the road than a couple of months. As long as they think they're getting a bargain at the moment, I doubt it.
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an absolutely hate filled letter, full of pure loathing and lividness.How fuckifg wonderfull!Id much rather read somethign written with passion then some geeks politically correct bullshit emial circulated crap to enlighten mass readers.Thanks for the refreshing take on the bullshit our government has pulled for decades.
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I may live at home with my mom and my dad but I'm 18. I have to pay for college, gas, insurance, cell phone bills, I paid for my car, and am saving up for a new one. I work part time and only make maybe $280 every 2 weeks. Dont give me that shit about how I need to grow up because I share a different opinion then u
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you've actually touched an an all-encompassing political issue that is the same in all democracies. No onw plans beyond their own term in office.It's this self serving reluctance to make an upopular desision now that might be politiclal suicide just to have the benifits reaped 10-20 years down the road.That's why Greorge W Stumppuller denies the evidence of global warming and therefore, doesn't need to cause any grief to polluting industries and their lobbyists.
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To Chance, glad I could be of service. Mr. U, Ohhh so true. Imagine how well off we would be now, had all the energy saving & energy alternatives of the late '70s and early '80s not been abandoned as soon as the price of oil crashed in '83.It defies all logic. You make it through the crisis, then fail to ever prepare for the recurrence of what has already afflicted you once. Societies the world over must grown past this or die in the infancy of their enlightenment.
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what matters is that atleast one person has begun to think for themselves rather then simply repeating what they are told by the approved sources. even if I didnt agree ( I do in part but thats not the only cause of the shit we are now in ) Id be happy to see you fexercsig independant thought
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Actually, you got me thinking with your point about the independants being queezed out of the market.Something similar happened in the late 1800's Rockefeller's Standard Oil bought up and sqeezed out everybody that stood in their way until they held 90% of the market.The US government finally steped in with their anti monopoly laws and had the company broken up into smaller bits with separate boards of directors. That's where companies like ESSO (S.O. - Standard Oil) Sunoco (Sun Oil Company) Texaco (Texas Oil Company), Standard Oil of Newjersy which became Exxon/Mobil all came from.Bunch of rotten kids from one monster parent(god it scares me some of the random shit floating around in my brain)
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"...but thats not the only cause of the shit we are now in..."So true, so true, so true. Government encouraged voter ignorance, government encouraged voter apathy, government encouraged single issue voting......and on......and on.......and on.
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not to mention the personal agenda of hte bastards that currently hold the reigns. Theres many reasons we are as screwed as we are now, I cant blame it all on bush, but i like to give that bastard as much credit for our current state of affairs as I can
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Carpooling is becoming a little trend now saves alot of money and gas since you and your partner split gas money, works sometimes for my parents.
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Car pooling's limitations have gotten greater as well with increased urban sprawl. Many newer cities no longer have a central business district. Many people live and or work to far apart from one another to make car pooling, or mass transit for that matter, practical in many cases.
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For people that can use it, it works very well!
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In reply to:I have to pay for college, gas, insurance, cell phone bills, I paid for my car, and am saving up for a new one. Who is paying for the roof over your head? The food you eat? The electric, the heat, you know the necessities in life. Now imagine YOU had to pay all of the above on $280 (you said you make) every two weeks. My whole point in my earlier post was that someone like you could not possibly understand the effects of these high gas prices. And that driving these days is a necessity.I also did not say you need to grow up. I said you have alot of growing up to do. You will not understand what it is like living paycheck to paycheck until you have grown a little more. And why are you getting so fussy? It is only my opinion. Isn't that the excuse you always use?
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Very true, and more cities would do well to discourage urban sprawl for just that, if no other reason. City planners need to design with more foresight to allow citizens to cope with difficulties in a communal manner when, as with gas prices or hurricanes, they can no longer handle them individually.
